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         <titlestmt>
            <titleproper>Steele County: Owatonna</titleproper>
            <subtitle>An Inventory of Its Birth and Death Records at the Minnesota Historical Society</subtitle>
            
            <sponsor>National Historical Publications and Records Commission.</sponsor>
         </titlestmt>
         <publicationstmt>
            <publisher encodinganalog="Publisher">Minnesota Historical Society</publisher>
            <address><addressline>St. Paul, MN.</addressline></address>
         </publicationstmt>
                   <seriesstmt><p>Government Records</p></seriesstmt>         </filedesc>
      <profiledesc>
         <creation>Finding aid encoded by
            Shelby Edwards and Cheri Thies, <date>May 2011.</date></creation>
         <langusage>Finding aid written in <language langcode="eng">English</language>. </langusage>
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      <did>
         <head id="a1">OVERVIEW</head>
         <repository label="Label:"><corpname>Minnesota Historical Society</corpname></repository>
         <origination label="Creator:"><corpname role="creator" encodinganalog="110">Owatonna
               (Minn.).</corpname></origination>
         <unittitle label="Title:" encodinganalog="245$a">Birth and death records.</unittitle>
        
         <unitdate label="Date:" encodinganalog="245$f" type="inclusive" normal="1871/1953"
            >1871-1953.</unitdate>
      
         <langmaterial label="Language of Materials">Materials in <language langcode="eng"
               >English</language>. </langmaterial>
         <abstract label="Abstract:">Birth, 1871-1932, 1935-1953, and death, 1871-1907, 1911-1951,
            1953, records.</abstract>
         <physdesc label="Quantity:" encodinganalog="300">6.15 cu. ft. (5 boxes and 2 partial
            boxes).</physdesc>
        
         <physloc label="Location:"> See <ref target="a9">Detailed Description</ref> for shelf
            locations.</physloc>
      </did>
      <controlaccess>
         <head id="a7">CATALOG HEADINGS</head>
         <p>This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota
            Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics should <extref
               href="http://mnhs.mnpals.net/F" show="new" actuate="onrequest">search the
               catalog</extref> using these headings.</p>
         <controlaccess>
            <head>Topics:</head>
            <subject encodinganalog="650">Vital statistics -- Minnesota -- Steele County.</subject>
         </controlaccess>
         <controlaccess>
            <head>Document Types:</head>
            <genreform encodinganalog="655">Birth records -- Minnesota -- Steele
               County.</genreform>
            <genreform encodinganalog="655">Death records -- Minnesota -- Steele
               County.</genreform>
         </controlaccess>
      </controlaccess>
      <descgrp type="admininfo">
         <head id="a8">ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION</head>
         <accessrestrict encodinganalog="506">
            <head>Access Restrictions:</head>
            <p>Access to birth records less than 100 years old is restricted pursuant to Minn. Stat.
               144.225. Researchers may apply to use these records in accordance with the State
               Archives access statement.</p>
         </accessrestrict>
         <prefercite encodinganalog="524">
            <head>Preferred Citation:</head>
            <p><emph render="italic">[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. </emph>Owatonna
               (Minn.). Birth and Death Records. Minnesota Historical Society.</p>
            <p><emph render="italic">See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional
               examples.</emph></p>
         </prefercite>
         <acqinfo encodinganalog="541">
            <head>Accession Information:</head>
            <p>Accession numbers: 982-134; 2007-63</p>
         </acqinfo>
         <processinfo>
            <head>Processing Information:</head>
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                  href="http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/"><extptr show="embed" altrender="right"
                     title="NHPRC logo" href="images/nhprc-178x178.jpg"/></extref></p>
            <p>Processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with a Basic Project grant
               awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission <extref
                  actuate="onrequest" audience="external" href="http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/"
                  >(NHPRC)</extref>.</p>
            <p>Catalog ID number: 001709084</p>
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			<head id="a9">DETAILED DESCRIPTION</head>
			<c01>
				<did>
					<physloc>123.D.17.2F</physloc>
					<unittitle>Birth register, </unittitle>
					<unitdate>1871-1885. </unitdate>
					<physdesc>1 volume.</physdesc>
				</did>
			</c01>
			<c01>
				<did>
					<unittitle>Death register, </unittitle>
					<unitdate>1871-1885. </unitdate>
					<physdesc>1 volume.</physdesc>
				</did>
			</c01>

			<c01>
				<did>
					<physloc>123.G.12.6F-1</physloc>
					<unittitle>Birth and death registers: </unittitle>
				</did>
				<c02>
					<did>
						<unitdate>1886. </unitdate>
						<physdesc>1 volume.</physdesc>
					</did>
				</c02>
				<c02>
					<did>
						<physloc>123.D.17.2F</physloc>
						<unitdate>1887-1899. </unitdate>
						<physdesc>1 volume.</physdesc>
					</did>
				</c02>
				<c02>
					<did>
						<physloc>123.G.12.6F-1</physloc>
						<unitdate>1900-1907. </unitdate>
						<physdesc>1 volume.</physdesc>
					</did>
				</c02>
			</c01>
    	   <c01>
    	      <did>
    	         <physloc>117.B.16.5B</physloc>
    	         <unittitle>Birth register, </unittitle>
    	         <unitdate>1908-1913. </unitdate>
    	       
    	      </did>
    	      <accessrestrict>
    	         <p>
    	            <emph render="bold">RESTRICTED.</emph>
    	         </p>
    	      </accessrestrict>
    	   </c01>
			<c01>
				<did>
					<physloc>123.D.17.2F</physloc>
					<unittitle>Death certificate record, </unittitle>
					<unitdate>1911-1913. </unitdate>
				
				</did>
				
			</c01>
			<c01>
				<did>
					<unittitle>Birth certificate record,</unittitle>
					<unitdate>1913. </unitdate>
					
				</did>
				<accessrestrict>
					<p>
						<emph render="bold">RESTRICTED.</emph>
					</p>
				</accessrestrict>
			</c01>
			<c01>
				<did>
					<unittitle>Birth, <unitdate>January 1914-September 1915, </unitdate>and death,
							<unitdate>January 1914-November 1915, </unitdate> certificate record. </unittitle>
					<physdesc>1 volume. </physdesc>
				</did>
				<accessrestrict>
					<p>
						<emph render="bold">RESTRICTED.</emph>
					</p>
				</accessrestrict>
				<scopecontent>
					<p>Indexed.</p>
				</scopecontent>
			</c01>
			<c01>
				<did>
					<unittitle>Birth, <unitdate>December 1915-September 1917, </unitdate>and death,
							<unitdate>November 1915-September 1917, </unitdate> certificate record. </unittitle>
					<physdesc>1 volume. </physdesc>
				</did>
				<accessrestrict>
					<p>
						<emph render="bold">RESTRICTED.</emph>
					</p>
				</accessrestrict>
				<scopecontent>
					<p>Indexed.</p>
				</scopecontent>
			</c01>
			<c01>
				<did>
					<unittitle>Birth, <unitdate>October 1917-January 1919, </unitdate>and death,
							<unitdate>September 1917-February 1919, </unitdate> certificate record. </unittitle>
					<physdesc>1 volume. </physdesc>
				</did>
				<accessrestrict>
					<p>
						<emph render="bold">RESTRICTED.</emph>
					</p>
				</accessrestrict>
				<scopecontent>
					<p>Indexed.</p>
				</scopecontent>
			</c01>
			<c01>
				<did>
					<unittitle>Birth, <unitdate>January 1919-April 1920, </unitdate>and death,
							<unitdate>February 1919-September 1920,</unitdate> certificate record. </unittitle>
					<physdesc>1 volume. </physdesc>
				</did>
				<accessrestrict>
					<p>
						<emph render="bold">RESTRICTED.</emph>
					</p>
				</accessrestrict>
				<scopecontent>
					<p>Indexed.</p>
				</scopecontent>
			</c01>
			<c01>
				<did>
					<unittitle>Birth and death certificate record,</unittitle>
					<unitdate>September 1920-June 1922.</unitdate>
					<physdesc>1 volume. </physdesc>
				</did>
				<accessrestrict>
					<p>
						<emph render="bold">RESTRICTED.</emph>
					</p>
				</accessrestrict>
				<scopecontent>
					<p>Indexed.</p>
				</scopecontent>
			</c01>
			<c01>
				<did>
					<unittitle>Birth, <unitdate>June 1922-January 1924, </unitdate>and death,
							<unitdate>July 1922-January 1924, </unitdate> certificate record. </unittitle>
					<physdesc>1 volume. </physdesc>
				</did>
				<accessrestrict>
					<p>
						<emph render="bold">RESTRICTED.</emph>
					</p>
				</accessrestrict>
				<scopecontent>
					<p>Indexed.</p>
				</scopecontent>
			</c01>
			<c01>
				<did>
					<unittitle>Birth, <unitdate>February 1924-October 1925, </unitdate>and death,
							<unitdate>February 1924-November 1925, </unitdate> certificate record. </unittitle>
					<physdesc>1 volume. </physdesc>
				</did>
				<accessrestrict>
					<p>
						<emph render="bold">RESTRICTED.</emph>
					</p>
				</accessrestrict>
				<scopecontent>
					<p>Indexed.</p>
				</scopecontent>
			</c01>
			<c01>
				<did>
					<physloc>123.D.17.3B</physloc>
					<unittitle>Birth and death certificate record,</unittitle>
					<unitdate>December 1925-July 1927. </unitdate>
					<physdesc>1 volume. </physdesc>
				</did>
				<accessrestrict>
					<p>
						<emph render="bold">RESTRICTED.</emph>
					</p>
				</accessrestrict>
				<scopecontent>
					<p>Indexed.</p>
				</scopecontent>
			</c01>
			<c01>
				<did>
					<unittitle>Birth, <unitdate>June 1927-September 1929, </unitdate>and death,
							<unitdate>July 1927-August 1929,</unitdate> certificate record. </unittitle>
					<physdesc>1 volume. </physdesc>
				</did>
				<accessrestrict>
					<p>
						<emph render="bold">RESTRICTED.</emph>
					</p>
				</accessrestrict>
				<scopecontent>
					<p>Indexed.</p>
				</scopecontent>
			</c01>
			<c01>
				<did>
					<unittitle>Birth certificate record,</unittitle>
					<unitdate>October 1929-August 1932. </unitdate>
					<physdesc>1 volume. </physdesc>
				</did>
				<accessrestrict>
					<p>
						<emph render="bold">RESTRICTED.</emph>
					</p>
				</accessrestrict>
				<scopecontent>
					<p>Indexed.</p>
				</scopecontent>
			</c01>
			<c01>
				<did>
					<unittitle>Death certificate record,</unittitle>
					<unitdate>March 1929-February 1938. </unitdate>
					<physdesc>2 volumes. </physdesc>
				</did>
				<scopecontent>
					<p>Indexed.</p>
				</scopecontent>
			</c01>
		
			<c01>
				<did>
					<unittitle>Birth certificate record,</unittitle>
					<unitdate>May 1935-August 1939. </unitdate>
					<physdesc>2 volumed. </physdesc>
				</did>
				<accessrestrict>
					<p>
						<emph render="bold">RESTRICTED.</emph>
					</p>
				</accessrestrict>
				<scopecontent>
					<p>Indexed.</p>
				</scopecontent>
			</c01>
			
		
			<c01>
				<did>
					<unittitle>Death certificate record,</unittitle>
					<unitdate>February 1938-1940.</unitdate>
					<physdesc>1 volume. </physdesc>
				</did>
				<scopecontent>
					<p>Indexed.</p>
				</scopecontent>
			</c01>
			<c01>
				<did>
					<unittitle>Birth certificate record,</unittitle>
					<unitdate>August 1939-1940.</unitdate>
					<physdesc>1 volume. </physdesc>
				</did>
				<accessrestrict>
					<p>
						<emph render="bold">RESTRICTED.</emph>
					</p>
				</accessrestrict>
				<scopecontent>
					<p>Indexed.</p>
				</scopecontent>
			</c01>
			<c01>
				<did>
					<physloc>123.D.17.4F</physloc>
					<unittitle>Death certificate record,</unittitle>
					<unitdate>1941-1950.</unitdate>
					<physdesc>10 folders.</physdesc>
				</did>
				<scopecontent>
					<p>Indexed. The 1941 certificates include an index for 
						1941-1946; the 1947 certificates
						include an index for 1947-1950. The 1943-1950 certificates are in reverse chronological order. </p>
				</scopecontent>
			</c01>
			<c01>
				<did>
					<unittitle>Birth certificate record,</unittitle>
					<unitdate>1941-1944. </unitdate>
					<physdesc>8 folders. </physdesc>
				</did>
				<accessrestrict>
					<p>
						<emph render="bold">RESTRICTED.</emph>
					</p>
				</accessrestrict>
				<scopecontent>
					<p>Indexed. The January-June 1941 certificates include an index
						for 1941-1943; the January-May 1944
						certificates include an index for 1944-1946.
						The records are in reverse chronological order. </p>
				</scopecontent>
			</c01>
			<c01>
				<did>
					<physloc>123.D.17.5B</physloc>
					<unittitle>Birth certificate records,</unittitle>
					<unitdate>1945-1950. </unitdate>
					<physdesc>17 folders.</physdesc>
				</did>
				<accessrestrict>
					<p>
						<emph render="bold">RESTRICTED.</emph>
					</p>
				</accessrestrict>
				<scopecontent>
					<p>Indexed. The January-April 1947 certificates include an
						index for 1947-1948; the January-April
						1949 certificates include an index for 1949;
						the January-April 1950 certificates include an index for 1950. The records are in reverse chronological order. </p>
				</scopecontent>
			</c01>
    	   <c01>
    	      <did>
    	         <physloc>117.B.16.5B</physloc>
    	         <unittitle>Birth register,</unittitle>
    	         <unitdate>1951-January 1952. </unitdate>
    	         <physdesc>2 volumes.</physdesc>
    	      </did>
    	      <accessrestrict>
    	         <p>
    	            <emph render="bold">RESTRICTED.</emph>
    	         </p>
    	      </accessrestrict>
    	      <scopecontent>
    	         <p>Indexed.</p>
    	      </scopecontent>
    	   </c01>
    	   <c01>
    	      <did>
    	         
    	         <unittitle>Birth register,</unittitle>
    	         <unitdate>April 1952-June 1953. </unitdate>
    	         <physdesc>2 volumes.</physdesc>
    	      </did>
    	      <accessrestrict>
    	         <p>
    	            <emph render="bold">RESTRICTED.</emph>
    	         </p>
    	      </accessrestrict>
    	      <scopecontent>
    	         <p>Indexed.</p>
    	      </scopecontent>
    	   </c01>
    	   
    	   <c01>
    	      <did>
    	         <physloc>117.B.16.6F</physloc>
    	         <unittitle>Death register,</unittitle>
    	         <unitdate>1951. </unitdate>
    	         <physdesc>2 volumes.</physdesc>
    	      </did>
    	    
    	      <scopecontent>
    	         <p>Indexed.</p>
    	      </scopecontent>
    	   </c01>
    	   <c01>
    	      <did>
    	         
    	         <unittitle>Death certificates,</unittitle>
    	         <unitdate>April-June 1953. </unitdate>
    	 
    	      </did>
    	    
    	   </c01>
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